- Arun Kumar
Connecting Oracle RMAN
In this article we will understand about Oracle RMAN utlity and how to connect RMAN to target database.
RMAN utility comes with Oracle Binaries
No special installation or license required for using RMAN
At command prompt, you can just type rman and the utility will start
By default, it connects to database environmental variables defined
RMAN is used only when your DB is in at least Mount stage
RMAN is used while the DB is up and running and have a very little performance impact if backup is running
Connecting RMAN
If you want to connect to the RMAN utility, you can simply type “rman target /” and it will connect to the default database variables that are exported in your environment.
Let us check the environmental variables in our database

The variables are set to proddb. Now if we type rman target / , it will connect to the proddb database

Let us say that you don’t want to connect to proddb but to any other database instance which is running on this server
You can connect to any database on the same server by following the steps:
# rman
RMAN> connect target sys@testdb
target database password:
But in real time, DBAs don’t use the above method. They will export the environmental variables and then connect to the correct database.